Good but not great as my business has grown and added complexity.
January 14, 2023

Good but not great as my business has grown and added complexity.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Gusto

I use it for hiring, running payroll, time tracking, and self-administering benefits.
  • track time off
  • easily pay employees and contractors
  • easily hire
  • Not enough flexibility with pay periods. For monthly payrolls in WA state, I'm required to pay the 1st-24th of the month by the end of the month. To have payday be the last day of the month, the pay period sometimes ends on the 24th, sometimes the 25th, and February there is no option to be in compliance as it pays up to the 22nd only.
  • When an employee maxes their IRA contribution for the year, Gusto stops making employer contributions even though the company is required to pay a % of total income for the year, not only during pay periods in which the employee contributes.
  • Gusto was not including all reportable earnings to our state family medical leave program. This caused my employee to be denied benefits over her maternity leave. Thankfully she appealed their decision and after I provided payroll reports the PFML program identified the issue with Gusto's reporting and approved her payments. This all took several months though and Gusto still has not contacted my employee to apologize for their error despite me asking them to do so on a couple occasions (and it being the least they could do!)
  • A few years ago I started the process of having Gusto administer our health insurance benefits. The process was a nightmare and I ultimately decided not to have them do it, however without my signature they had already started changing it over.
  • Customer service is awful. It's almost not even worth sending an email since it takes months to get a reply and then they often don't address the problem but say "let us know if you need anything else" in which case you will wait another couple months for a reply if you even get one.
  • payroll
  • benefits
  • new hire reports
  • state payroll tax filings
  • I'm not sure how to answer this. I think any other payroll company would be about the same.

Do you think Gusto delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Gusto's feature set?

Yes

Did Gusto live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Gusto go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Gusto again?

No

If you are a very small company with no benefits and only a couple employees and/or contractors it would be fine. If you expect to grow or have many benefits I would recommend looking elsewhere.

Gusto Feature Ratings

Pay calculation
9
Benefit plan administration
6
Direct deposit files
8
Salary revision and increment management
10